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respondence

Syllables: res·pon·denceUK/ɹɪˈspɒndəns/

respondence noun: response, answer.

Noun

respondence (plural respondences)

  1. (obsolete) Response, answer.
    • Th'Angelicall soft trembling voyces made / To th'instruments diuine respondence meet […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (archaic) Correspondence, agreement.

respondence meaning in Kannada

respondence in Kannada

ಹೊಂದಿಕೆಯಾಗಿರುವುದು, ಸಂವಾದಿಯಾಗಿರುವುದು, ಸದೃಶವಾಗಿರುವುದು

Synonyms of respondence

Forms of respondence

pluralrespondences

Origin of respondence

Partly from Middle French respondance, partly from respond + -ence.

Questions about respondence

What does respondence mean?
Respondence means response, answer.
What is respondence in Kannada?
Respondence in Kannada is ಹೊಂದಿಕೆಯಾಗಿರುವುದು, ಸಂವಾದಿಯಾಗಿರುವುದು, ಸದೃಶವಾಗಿರುವುದು. See Respondence meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is respondence?
Respondence is a noun.
How do you pronounce respondence?
Respondence is pronounced /ɹɪˈspɒndəns/ (UK).
What is the plural of respondence?
The plural of respondence is respondences.

Words near respondence in the dictionary

  1. respond
  2. respondeat superior
  3. responded
  4. respondee
  5. respondees
  6. respondence
  7. respondences
  8. respondency
  9. respondent
  10. respondentia
  11. respondentias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: respondence (page history and authors); respondence (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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